Young Woman Designs Educational Interactive Books for Children

The young woman, Suhaila Saab, has succeeded in establishing her scientific project called “Kido”, which includes the implementation of interactive books for children designed from cloth as an integrated program to teach crafts with color and shape.

The young woman, Saab, who studied French literature at the University of Damascus and traveled to Italy in 2014 to continue her studies, said: “During my stay in Italy and through research and study, I got to know the “Montessori” approach, which was founded by Italian teacher and doctor Maria Montessori, and is based on teaching with fun.This curriculum attracted me and I started planning in 2020 to implement my project. She added: I was acquainted with the existing models worldwide and the research related to the effect of movement and colors on the child, and I began implementing the idea and launching it in April 2021, where I contacted women from Sweida and we began to apply the ideas to reality.

Saab said: I designed an educational cloth book project for children that is hand-stitched by several women in Sweida in an elaborate, beautiful, fun, useful and safe way for the child, and it is sold to those willing or distributed free of charge to children who are unable to buy. She pointed out that the book had introduced the entire alphabet, “Arabic and English”, in addition to kinetic activities such as the human body, the four seasons, the five senses, the division of transportation and the traffic lights, stressing that the most successful method of education is through interactive models.

Miss Saab pointed out that the book is available to suit each age group of children. There is a group of books divided by age from day 1 to 3 months, containing fixed drawings in black and white, because the infant distinguishes only shade and light, and from the age of 3 to 6 and 9 months, the basic colors are red, yellow and blue as they enhance the sense of sight when the child’s perception of colors begins to expand. As for the kinetic activity books, they include children from the age of one to three years, and there are books that contain letters from the age of 3 to 6 and 7 years.

The young Syrian talent indicated that the books were manufactured from cloth in order to protect the environment and children and to ensure their sustainability, as the cloth is safe for the child and washable, stressing that the book has spread well in Syria and several countries and is also directed to children with disabilities, and she named her project “Kido” because it is a call of amity for the child as “Kido” means “my little one”.

NR